II.—INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
the Christian religion above all their science, 319;
thought that sacred rites were to be performed to many gods, 323;
the opinion of, that the souls of men become demons, 365;
the three qualities by which they distinguish between the nature of men and of demons, 365, etc.;
their idea of the non-intercourse of celestial gods with men, and the need of the intercourse of demons, 371, etc.;
hold that God alone can bestow happiness, 382;
have misunderstood the true worship of God, 386;
the principles which, according to, regulate the purification of the soul, 413;
blush to acknowledge the incarnation of Christ, 423;
refutation of the notion of, that the soul is co-eternal with God, 429, 430;
opinion of, that angels created man's body, 518;
refutation of the opinion of, that earthly bodies cannot inherit heaven, ii. 501, etc.
Players, excluded by the Romans from offices of state, i. 60, 61.
Plays, scenic, which the gods have exacted from their worshippers, i. 165.
Pleasure, bodily, graphically described, i. 217.
Plebs, the dissensions between, and the Patricians, ii. 69, 70, 113;
the secession of, 113.
Plotinus, men, according to, less wretched than demons, i. 364;
regarding enlightenment from above, 385.
Plutarch, his Life of Cato quoted, i. 34;
his Life of Numa, 173.
Pluto, i. 296.
Πνεῦμα, i. 553, 554, 555.
Poetical licence, allowed by the Greeks, restrained by the Romans, i. 57, 61.
Poets, the, Plato would exclude from his ideal republic, i. 63, etc., 325;
the theological, ii. 232, 233.
Pontius, Lucius, announces Sylla's victory, i. 82.
"Poor, He raiseth the, out of the dunghill," ii. 175.
Porphyry, his views of theurgy, i. 394, etc., 396, etc.;
epistle of, to Anebo, 397, etc.;
as to how the soul is purified, 413;
refused to recognise Christ, 414;
vacillation of, between the confession of the true God and the worship of demons, 418;
the impiety of, 419;
so blind as not to recognise the true wisdom, 422;
his emendations of Platonism, 426, etc.;
his ignorance of the universal way of the soul's deliverance, 430, etc.;
abjured the opinion that souls constantly pass away and return in cycles, 511;
his notion that the soul must be separated from the body in order to be happy, demolished by Plato, 531, etc.;
the conflicting opinions of Plato and, if united, might have led to the truth, 532, 533;